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His birth certificate says : “Shane Little, Born in Newcastle upon Tyne 1975.”

His mum says : “I think what Shane does is great/mad I am excited for him but at the same time worried.”

His colleagues say : “I have know idea how he gets so much time off work……”

Strangers say : ” Thats impossible.”

His friends say : “What this time….?”

His girlfriends say : “Hurry back.”

His Twitter profile says : “Part time Adventurer, Part time Blogger, Part time ex-Boyfriend, Part time 737NG ground Engineer, Full time dreamer looking for balance between my parts.”

Shane says : I’m just a normal person that likes to get out and about, life is too short to have a “Standard life”, Live life now, have no regrets. “Adventure is turning fears and dreams into memories.”

I have a healthy disregard for doing what is expected of me. Since 2009 I’ve combined my love of outdoors and travel with my childhood passion of cycling. Since 2009 I’ve cycled :

I’ve given up on backpacking trips, travelling from bus station to bus station doesn’t do it for me. I’d rather get to places under my own steam and avoid cities. Before “retiring” from Backpacking I’d travelled in :

Thailand, Loas, Cambodia before they became over run with LP morons (2000).

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Hi Shane, thanks for putting us on the path to Katwijk yesterday! Don’t forget to check out our blog – you are in it now! Also, you could start a cycle cross Canada or Canada to Mexico, right at our house on Vancouver Island. Your room there is ready for you now!

Dear Shane,
I too am a touring cyclist and was struck by the name of your web page. Just thought I’d say hi to a kindred spirit with a similar name. (As you can see from my email address.) I live in the U.S. Sorry I missed your trans-am tour. Nice web page. –Jackie

I read with interest your blogpost about the Trans-Labrador Highway. I thought well of myself for having ridden it this summer, until I read about your effort in the middle of the winter: http://www.shanecycles.com/winter-cycling-in-canada/ I banged out Baie-Comeau, Quebec to Deer Lake, NL in 11 days in the saddle. Longest day was 296K from Churchill Falls to Goose Bay, where I had to wait for my lost passport to catch up with me by Fedex. I think I ate everything on the menu of the Tim Horton’s in GB. Jumped from there to Port Hope Simpson in two 250K days.

Great site, liked your tent review. Done a fair few trips myself in Asia/Australia/Europe, thinking of doing another in July and looking for a cycle partner. If you have contact details, email them back, would be good to have a chat if you feel up to it.

I have built a website on cycle touring my backyard – BC’s Vancouver Island & Sunshine Coast. The emphasis is on backroads biketouring and bikepacking (some rides quite remote), although there is content for cycle touring on popular main road routes as well. There’s rides, campsites, areas and info on what you need to know about riding the backroads. And a section on some tough rides in uncommon remote corners of the wider world.

I am uncertain whether your site shares links or site reviews, or keeps a cycle touring resource library, but I’m sharing this with you just in case. It is possible some of your readers may be interested in this area of BC: in remote backroads routes and camping, or regular cycle touring.